Lifting device



(No Model.)

W. T.- B. OLEMM.

LIFTINGDEVIGE. I N0. 601,631. PatentedApr. 5, 1898.

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$PEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 601,631, dated April.5, 1898.

Application filed February 2,1897. Serial No. 621,617. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. B. CLEMM, a citizen of the United States,residing at P0- cahontas, in the county of Tazewell and State ofVirginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in LiftingDevices, of which the following is a full and complete specification,such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to lifting devices such as are usually employedin removing various articles from shelves in stores and other places;and the object of the invention is to provide an improved-device of thisclass which is simple in construction and operation and alsocomparatively inexpensive, while being well adapted to accomplish theresult for which it is intended.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accon1panying drawings forma part, in which the separate partsof my improvement are designated by the same numerals of reference ineach of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a side view of myimprovement, and Fig. 2 a plan view thereof.

In the practice of my invention I provide a lifter of the class hereinspecified which consists of two similar bars or handles 5 and 6, one ofwhich is provided with guides 7 ,through which the other is passed, andin the construction shown in the drawings the guides 7 are secured tothe bar or handle 5, and the bar or handle 6 is passed therethrough.

Connected with the upper end of the bar or handle 5 in any desiredmanner is. a plate or jaw 8, which projects at right angles thereto, andthe bar or handle 6 is provided at its upper end with a similar plate orjaw 9, which is secured thereto in any desired manner and which projectsat right angles therefrom above and parallel with the jaw 8 to a pointnear. the end thereof, said jaws being provided with sharpened ends. Theupper end of the bar or handle 6 is also provided with a yokeshaped hookor loop 10', and the plate or jaw 8 and the handle 5 are also connectedby a diagonal brace 11, which gives strength thereto.

connection with the accompanying drawings and the following statementthereof.

In practice the lower end of the bar or handle 5 is grasped in one hand,and the handle 6 is manipulated with the other, being moved upwardly anddownwardly through the guides 7, and when thus operated or manipulatedthe jaws or plates 8 and 9 may be made to grasp and hold a bolt ofcloth, so as to remove the same from a shelf, as will be readilyunderstood, and they may also be operated so as to remove various otherarticles from shelves and also to place such articles on the shelves.The hook 10 may also be employed for removing articles provided withhandles from shelves and for placing said articles thereon.

This device is simple in construction and operation and well adapted toaccomplish the result for which it is intended, and it will be apparentthat changes in and modifications of the construction described may bemade without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificingits advantages.

In practice I prefer to connect with the upper ends of the handles orbars 5 6 crossheads 12, to which the plates or jaws 8 and 9 are secured;but this feature is not essential, and the plates or jaws may be secureddirectly to the handles or bars, if desired.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The herein-described lifting device comprising twosimilar bars one of which is provided with keepers through which theother is adapted to slide, cross-heads mounted upon the upper end ofeach of said bars, angularly-projecting plates secured to each of saidcross-heads each of said plates being rectangular in form and beingsemicircular at the free end, the free end of each plate being beveledon one side, each being beveled on the side opposite to the other, thesaid plates being substantially the same length whereby the said underplate projects beyond the said upper plate at the end thereof, and abrace ence of the subscribing witnesses, this 28th day of January, 1897.

WILLIAM T. B. OLEMM.

Vvitnesses: A

BERT RUssELL, J AS. S. HENsLEY.

